Exactly Debbo. With the uproar this has caused you'd think the earth's core had cracked and we were all about to be plunged to our firey doom. It isn't that big a deal, in my opinion. If they can get rid of dodgy spam, then that's cool

I've had the odd post deleted and a ticking off come my way, all fair dos, stuff like putting up charity places that friends not on the site were trying to shift...in hindsight shouldn't have done!

But then i've also had a few bizarre posts against me deleted, some well known stuff from well known ex posters, but also some bizarre chap telling me how my whole training thread is a due to me having a messiah complex, and how not hitting 1hr 15 for a half as a bloke is shameful

I am amazed anyone really cares about this user mod thing tho...i'd stretch it a lot further and let them combine duplicate threads and wipe pointless ones...that way the whole site would flow a lot better.

Stevie, with the greatest respect... well ok, with little respect. You're being a bit of a knob about this.

You're making a massive deal of this because there's a bunch of posters on here that you perceive as being anti you, and you think they'll use it as a way of affecting your posts.

Maybe if you weren't so regularly abusive to other posters you wouldn't have such an anti fan club. Just saying like.

It's a forum. Hell won't freeze over if a few posts get deleted. At least I hope not cos I'd like it to be hot when I get there.

The other week there were plenty of people up in arms about the spam. If RW can find a way of conning a few gullible people into working for free to clean it up (sorry, Meldy and Jeepers!) then good luck to them.

The problem is that the user mods wouldn't have been able to cope with that Spam attack. 8000 new threads created in a day. Meldy's fingers would have been shuffling aorund the keyboard like lightening to keep up with that

I don't really care who does the spam removal but I think it's reasonable that to expect people who use a forum to do it if they're bothered by it - I find it mildly irritating, but I'm not actually that bothered, as normally I don't post in many places

KK - I'm sure it was you earlier who said if polis and ambulancemen can work weekends so can RW staff, but to be honest, it's a forum - it's just for a bit of fun - so why should RW pay for 24 hour cover to keep it spam free? It's hardly life threatening.

consensus......Group decision making process that seeks the consent, not necessarily the agreement of participants and the resolution of objections.

can't imagine that they could ever get the consensus of the whole group on this........there are so many people on these forums .with so many different reasons for being on here..........you could say that out of the thousands that use these forums.maybe a dozen have made an objection to this...............so they could say that is a big enough majority to go forward with their plans

and not sure why they need evryones consent.we are not share holders.......we all use it for our own needs.......

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